The revelation that the NSA has kept millions of records on just about everything from just about everyone may be one of the single biggest news stories this year. And now, private companies have started getting serious about locking out big brother.
The big tech companies including Microsoft, Google and Apple are all looking to step up their encryption to 2048-bit. Facebook too, long considered one of the most flagrant abusers of user privacy, will be stepping up not only their encryption keys, but the way information is stored and managed such that their systems can "fail well."
While this is certainly a step in the right direction, and it's unlikely that any organization could breech 2048-bit encryption en masse, the NSA has plenty of other tools -- notably, keeping zero-day exploits secret to use them in their search for data.
Bloomberg has the full report.